The installation of the Lotus Connections 2.5 pilot looks easy. Unfortunately the out of the box experience was not at all pleasurable for me. Here are some of the issues that I encountered while doing the install. I’m not sure how many of these were specific to my environment, but they did all hurt.
1) Don’t install from a directory with spaces.
If you download the pilot to your desktop and try and install from here, things will crash and burn
2) Don’t expect the VM to be easily moved around networks
I started my second installation on my laptop at home, then brought it to work. This crashed and burned.
3) Use fully qualified hostnames
While the installer said that you could specify a short hostname or a fully qualified hostname, the short hostname did not work for me.
4) Connections 2.5 is RAM hungry
1.5 GBytes is not enough 2.5 GBytes is. Not sure of the exact threshold for it to work, but I can confirm that 2.5 GBytes is enough RAM.
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Hi Rob
I’m also planning on doing a pilot installation of Connections 2.5. May I ask, what your system specs where? Was it on a VM? Many thanks in advance.
Best Regards,
Michel
Hi Michel,
The pilot was running on a VMware image which was running on my MacBook Pro. I had one CPU allocated to the VM. As mentioned it had 2.5 GB of RAM, and I was using W2K3.
Rob